Improvement in harvester-cutters



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

DANIEL' STUKEY, OF LANCASTER, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTER-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 107,118, dated Sept-einher 6, 1870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL STUKEY, of Lancaster, in the county of Fairfield and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harvesters; and I do hereby declare the following' to be a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which the figure is a plan view of the inger-bar, saw-blade, and knife-bar, with the latter drawn endwise so far as to partially expose the saw-blade.

This invention consists in the arrangement ot' the saw-blade in relation to the reciprocating knives, in such a manner that the teeth of the sawblade project forward of the points at which the inclined sides of the knives meet, so far as to prevent stalks of grass 0r grain from collecting' in the corners between the knives, and choking or clogging the same.

In the drawing, a is the 'finger-bar b, the fingers of the same; c, the saw-blade, which is laid ilat on the ijngers 5 d, the knife-bar, which is laid upon the saw-blade; e, the knives, andf the guides in which the knife-bar plays.

As shown in the drawing, the saw-blade is wider than the knife-bar, and the teeth ofthe saw-blade project forward of theA angles between the knives c. This arrangement prevents the stalks ot' the crop which is cutting from lod gin g in the said angles, and thus chok- The stationary saw-blade c, arraugedin relation to the reciprocating knives e, substantial] y as described.

DANIEL STUKEY.

Witnesses:

A. T. BARNES, II. C. DRINKLE. 

